I have been trying to find the immigration of my uncle's family. After perusing 9,000 records, I wonder if it is possible they did not come through Ellis Island. Maybe someone has access to a better search engine.
My uncle is Silvio Lawrence DiLaura (later changed by him to DeLaura). He married Ana Bothilde Andersen (born in Denmark) raised in Hartford, CT on January 18, 1928 and raised 2 boys Donald & Gilbert.

The Silvio you are referring to is the last name listed in the 1900 census, correct? If so, he was only 11 months old (11 of 12 months age listed). If Ercole immigrated in 1893...Silvio was probably born here. No immigration record would exist.

I found your uncle's mother, Virgina; brother, Pasquale; and sister, Domenica, on a ship's manifest. The manifest is VERY difficult to read in it's original view on Ancestry. Maybe you can take a look at it yourself, or try to find it on ellisisland.org using the following information:

​As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.The earliest...

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